Dr. Thomas Philbeck, assistant dean, College of Arts and Sciences at the NYIT Manama Campus co-organized an international conference for NYIT along with Dr. Curtis Carbonell entitled "Transforming Human Nature in Science, Technology and the Arts" held last weekend (Oct 21-23rd) at Dublin City University in Dublin Ireland and presented a paper entitled "Posthuman Agency". The conference was co-sponsored by NYIT's College of Arts and Sciences, Dublin City University, University of Exeter and the University of Erlangen. Visit the conference website http://www.transformingthehuman.org which will become a portal for news about trans- and posthumanism as well as possible further conferences on the topic.